An information processing system includes hardware, including a processor and a memory, an information processing apparatus and a terminal device. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a storing unit and a controlling unit. The receiving unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that receives, from a store terminal, information on merchandise purchased by a customer. The storing unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that stores at least one of a weight and a volume of the merchandise associated with the customer. The controlling unit is implemented at least by the hardware and that causes information including at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise purchased by the customer to be output as output information in response to a request from the external device. The terminal device requests the output information.
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8. A terminal device requests output information to an information processing apparatus;
the information processing apparatus including:
hardware, including a processor and a memory,
a receiving unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that receives, from a store terminal, information on merchandise purchased by a customer;
a storing unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that stores at least one of a weight and a volume of the merchandise associated with the customer; and
a controlling unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that causes information including at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise purchased by the customer to be output as output information in response to a request from the external device,
the terminal device displays the output information received from the information processing apparatus on a plurality of regions to be displayed simultaneously in one screen of the terminal device,
each region of the plurality of regions includes information on the merchandise purchased by the customer and a total value of at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise included in each region of the plurality of regions, and
the information on the merchandise purchased by the customer is displayed in any one of each region of the plurality of regions in the form of a predetermined icon, and the predetermined icon can be moved between the plurality of regions.
1. An information processing system comprising:
hardware, including a processor and a memory,
an information processing apparatus and,
a terminal device;
the information processing apparatus including;
a receiving unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that receives, from a store terminal, information on merchandise purchased by a customer;
a storing unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that stores at least one of a weight and a volume of the merchandise associated with the customer; and
a controlling unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that causes information including at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise purchased by the customer to be output as output information in response to a request from the external device,
the terminal device requests the output information,
the terminal device displays the output information received from the information processing apparatus on a plurality of regions to be displayed simultaneously in one screen of the terminal device,
each region of the plurality of regions includes information on the merchandise purchased by the customer and a total value of at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise included in each region of the plurality of regions, and
the information on the merchandise purchased by the customer is displayed in any one of each region of the plurality of regions in the form of a predetermined icon, and the predetermined icon can be moved between the plurality of regions.
15. An electronic receipt system comprising:
a pos (Point of Sales) device installed at a store;
an electronic receipt center that is an information processing apparatus; and
a terminal device requests the output information to the electronic receipt center,
wherein the electronic receipt center including:
hardware, including a processor and a memory;
a receiving unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that receives, from the pos device, information on merchandise purchased by a customer;
a storing unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that stores at least one of a weight and a volume of the merchandise associated with the customer; and
a controlling unit that is implemented at least by the hardware and that causes information including at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise purchased by the customer to be output as output information in response to a request from the external device;
wherein the terminal device displays the output information received from the electronic receipt center on a plurality of regions to be displayed simultaneously in one screen of the terminal device,
each region of the plurality of regions includes information on the merchandise purchased by the customer and a total value of at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise included in each region of the plurality of regions, and
the information on the merchandise purchased by the customer is displayed in any one of each region of the plurality of regions in the form of a predetermined icon, and the predetermined icon can be moved between the plurality of regions, wherein
the pos device generates, as a digitized electronic receipt, receipt information on purchased merchandise purchased by a customer at the store and transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center,
the electronic receipt center stores the received electronic receipt and, upon receiving a transmission request for the electronic receipt from the terminal device of the customer, transmits the stored electronic receipt for the customer to the terminal device that has made the request,
when generating the electronic receipt, the pos device acquires information indicating a weight or a volume of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer and generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the weight or the volume of the purchased merchandise is further added, and
upon receiving the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center, the terminal device provides a screen display of the information indicating the weight or the volume of the purchased merchandise included in the electronic receipt.
2. The information processing system according to
the storing unit of the information processing apparatus stores the merchandise purchased by the customer associated with a store of purchase and a date of purchase, and
the terminal device causes the information on the merchandise purchased by the customer to be displayed in the form of the predetermined icon grouped by the store of purchase or grouped by the store of purchase and by the date of purchase.
3. The information processing system according to
4. The information processing system according to
5. The information processing system according to
the plurality of regions include a first region indicating carry-on baggage carried into an airplane and a second region indicating cargo-compartment check-in baggage checked into the airplane,
the first region includes a weight limit or a volume limit of the carry-on baggage, and
the second region includes a weight limit or a volume limit of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage.
6. The information processing system according to
7. The information processing system according to
9. The terminal device according to
the storing unit of the information processing apparatus stores the merchandise purchased by the customer associated with a store of purchase and a date of purchase, and
the terminal device causes the information on the merchandise purchased by the customer to be displayed in the form of the predetermined icon grouped by the store of purchase or grouped by the store of purchase and by the date of purchase.
10. The terminal device according to
11. The terminal device according to
12. The terminal device according to
the first region includes a weight limit or a volume limit of the carry-on baggage, and
the second region includes a weight limit or a volume limit of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage.
13. The terminal device according to
14. The terminal device according to
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This application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/095,481 filed Oct. 22, 2018, which is a National Stage Entry of International Application No. PCT/JP2017/014660 filed Apr. 10, 2017, which claims priority of Japanese Patent Application No. 2016-086053 filed Apr. 22, 2016, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
The present disclosure relates to information processing apparatuses, electronic receipt systems, mobile terminals, baggage weight checking methods, and baggage weight checking programs and relates, in particular, to an information processing apparatus, an electronic receipt system, a mobile terminal, a baggage weight checking method, and a baggage weight checking program that allow a customer who is to board an airplane to grasp a total weight of purchased merchandise purchased by the customer.
To date, receipts and other types of records of commercial transactions are issued in a paper format. However, with the development of electronic commerce, many of the receipts for online commercial transactions are being issued in the form of digitized electronic receipts.
Meanwhile, when a person procures merchandise overseas or purchases souvenirs during overseas travel, that person may encounter an unexpected trouble during the procedures for boarding an airplane if the person has purchased a large amount of merchandise. Typically, purchased merchandise is taken back to a hotel and repacked into a suitcase, a bag, or the like. Thus, whether the purchased merchandise can be stored into the suitcase or the bag can be checked visually on the spot.
However, the weight of the purchased merchandise cannot be measured without a scale. Therefore, for example, when a large number of small-volume cosmetic items or the like are purchased, even if the dimensions of the carry-on baggage meet the limit, a situation may occur in which the weight of the baggage is over the weight limit set by an airplane baggage allowance guideline and is not allowed to be carried into the cabin, or the weight of the baggage may be over the weight limit of free check-in baggage to be loaded into the cargo compartment of the airplane, thereby incurring an excess fee. In the worst case, the weight of the baggage may be over the maximum weight limit of check-in baggage.
In other words, when a large amount of purchased merchandise is to be brought back by an airplane, if the weight of the baggage is over the weight limit of an airplane baggage allowance guideline such as the one illustrated in
When the total weight of the purchased merchandise is not known, a passenger may need to pay an excess fee during the procedures for boarding an airplane due to a slight weight difference. Alternatively, when a large amount of merchandise has been purchased, a passenger may need to go through the boarding procedures while being unsure of whether all the purchased merchandise is there and may find that all the merchandise has not been brought back only after arriving home. To prevent such a situation, for example, Published Japanese Translation of PCT International Publication for Patent Application, No. 2011-524051 of Patent Literature 1, titled “payment receipt processing method and system using receipt store,” discloses a technique that, for example in a case of travelling in Japan, makes it possible to grasp all the items purchased after arriving in Japan with the use of an electronic receipt system. Specifically, the technique described in Patent Literature 1 provides such a system as described below.
First, upon an electronic receipt for purchased merchandise being generated on the basis of a commercial transaction, the electronic receipt is transmitted to a server, or a receipt store, on the cloud. The receipt store, serving as a cloud service, can provide a customer with a variety of services related to electronic receipts. For example, the customer can access an electronic receipt for that customer by accessing the receipt store on the cloud and acquire various pieces of information on purchased merchandise.
In addition, for example, in a case of a commercial establishment, such as a retail store or a hotel, a system for carrying out a commercial transaction can be configured with the use of a point of sales (POS) component, such as a cash register, connected to a device reader. The customer carries a customer device that stores a profile of that customer. The profile includes payment information, such as a credit card number, other account number, or electronic money, and can further include information on a contact address that indicates the location of a receipt store to which an electronic receipt for the customer is to be transmitted. The device reader can read out profile information from the customer device. As a result, the POS component or the device reader can transmit the electronic receipt for the customer to the receipt store specified in the customer's profile.
The electronic receipt can be transmitted in a variety of ways. For example, instead of transmitting the electronic receipt from the POS component or the device reader, as another option, in a case in which the device reader is capable of bidirectional communication with the customer device, the device reader may transmit the electronic receipt generated at the time of a commercial transaction to the customer device, and the customer device may store a copy of the electronic receipt into the customer device and also transmit the electronic receipt to the receipt store on the cloud.
The electronic receipt can include any level of details regarding the commercial transaction. For example, in a certain credit card commercial transaction, details at an item-by-item level in the commercial transaction are provided to the credit card issuer, and the availability of this data is utilized to provide the customer with a highly detailed receipt. In such a case, the customer can access this detailed level of details via the receipt store thereafter.
In
The customer 102 has the customer device 104. The customer device 104 stores a profile of the customer 102 in a digitized form. The profile includes various pieces of information that can be used by the customer 102 to engage in a commercial transaction. For example, as the profile information, the customer device 104 stores credit card information, other account information, or information on electronic money to be used by the customer 102 to pay for purchased merchandise.
The customer device 104 is a wireless telephone, a mobile information terminal, a smart card, or any other type of device. The customer device 104 includes a component that stores the profile information described above and includes a component that transmits the profile information to the device reader 106 of an appropriate type. Examples of the components of the customer device 104 and an example of the profile information stored in the customer device 104 are illustrated in
The device reader 106 is a component used to read out information to be transmitted by the customer device 104. For example, the device reader 106 can read out information on a device that meets the ISO (International Standard Organization) 14443 standard for contactless IC cards or a device that uses Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. In one example, the customer device 104 is a wireless telephone equipped with the NFC technology, and as the customer 102 “swipes” the wireless telephone within a few inches of the device reader 106, the device reader 106 can read out information from the customer device 104. However, the content described above is merely an example, and it suffices that the device reader 106 can read out information from the customer device 104 of any type by using any type of technology or communication mechanism.
Profile information 108 is information stored in the customer device 104. The profile information 108 includes the name of the customer 102, payment information such as a credit card number, or any other information. An example of specific information of such profile information 108 will be described later with reference to
In an example of a commercial transaction scenario, a purchase of merchandise is accomplished through a plurality of different components including the device reader 106 and the point of sales (POS) component 110. The POS component 110 is a cash register, a retail kiosk, or any other type of device or system used to facilitate sales. Typically, for example, in a case of a bricks-and-mortar store, a restaurant, or the like, the POS component 110 is installed at a location where the commercial transaction in which the customer is physically engaging takes place and used for the commercial transaction. A scenario of a location where the customer is physically engaging is in a contrasting relationship to an internet purchase or electronic commerce scenario or other scenario where a remote commercial transaction is carried out over a network.
As such,
The device reader 106 and the POS component 110 are configured as separate components that are interconnected. In another example, the device reader 106 is embedded in the POS component 110.
Upon the completion of a commercial transaction, the POS component 110 generates an electronic receipt 116. The POS component 110 may generate a partial receipt composed of items excluding payment information that is to be added later by the device reader 106 when the payment for the charge is collected from the customer 102. The electronic receipt 116 may include, for example, purchased items 152, item price(s) 154, a total monetary amount 156 of the purchased items, payment information 158 (e.g., the monetary amount paid for the purchase and the form of payment), or any other type of information.
The electronic receipt 116 is transmitted from the POS component 110 to the receipt store 118 on the cloud 120. Typically, the cloud 120 is provided by a remote device and software and constitutes a collection of functions and/or services that interact with each other via a network. The receipt store 118 can receive the electronic receipt 116 and execute various operations in relation to the electronic receipt 116. For example, the customer 102 can be provided with the contact address of the electronic receipt 116 for the customer 102 and presented with the electronic receipt 116 for the customer 102. Thus, the customer 102 can find various facts (e.g., the type of the purchased items, the purchased items, the monetary amount paid, and so on) included in the electronic receipt 116.
However, as illustrated in
In the case illustrated in
The device reader 106 generates the electronic receipt 116 of an appropriate format upon the payment having been received by referring to the partial receipt 122. Specifically, upon receiving the partial receipt 122 and then generating the electronic receipt 116, the device reader 106 transmits the electronic receipt 116 to the receipt store 118 via the cloud 120.
In the case illustrated in
Next, an example of a block configuration of the customer device 104 illustrated in the system configuration diagram of
The customer device 104 illustrated in
The storage component 1002 may be constituted by any of a flash memory, a read only memory, a volatile memory, a disk, and the like. The communication component 1004 can be used for the customer device 104 to carry out unidirectional communication or bidirectional communication with the world outside the customer device 104. For example, the communication component 1004 can include a wired or wireless network interface, a serial port, a parallel port, an antenna, or any other type of one or more communication components that are each stand-alone or combined with each other. The processor 1006 is a constituent element used for the customer device 104 to execute a command. The command is stored in the storage component 1002 and then executed or received via the communication component 1004 and then executed.
The profile information 108 is stored in the storage component 1002, as described above.
The profile information 108 illustrated in
For example, in a case in which the customer 102 subscribes to a receipt store service and the receipt store service provides the customer 102 with a location to which the electronic receipt 116 is to be transmitted, such as an email address, an IM address, an SMS (Short Message Service) address, or a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), the location to which the electronic receipt 116 is transmitted is included in the contact address 1010. In one example,
The payment account information 1012 is information for identifying various types of accounts to be used to pay for the charge when the customer purchases merchandise. The payment account information 1012 includes credit card information 1020, household account information 1022 (e.g., an in-store account number), a gift certificate 1024, a micropayment structure or lump-sum payment account 1026, or any other type of account information such as electronic money.
Next, a process in which the electronic receipt 116 is generated in the POS component 110 and the device reader 106 in the system configuration diagram illustrated in
In
Upon receiving the profile information transmitted from the customer device 104 (sequence S504), the device reader 106 transmits the received profile information to the POS component 110 (sequence S506). For example, the device reader 106 is connected to the POS component 110 via a cable and can operate as an interface that relays information between the customer device 104 and the POS component 110.
Upon receiving the profile information (sequence S508), the POS component 110 receives display information on the items of purchased merchandise purchased by the customer 102, the prices of the items, and/or other sales data (sequence S510). Herein, the POS component 110 may receive the display information on the items of purchased merchandise, the prices of the items, and other sales data through any reception method.
The POS component 110 generates the electronic receipt 116 or the partial receipt 122 for the commercial transaction (sequence S512). As described above, the POS component 110 can generate the complete electronic receipt 116 for the commercial transaction and can also generate the partial receipt 122 with information excluding the payment information from the information used for the electronic receipt 116.
Next, a process up to a point when the electronic receipt 116 is transmitted to the receipt store 118 from the customer device 104 in the system configuration diagram illustrated in
In
Upon receiving the electronic receipt 116 (sequence S810), the customer device 104 stores a copy of the received electronic receipt 116 into the storage component 1002 (a memory or a storage device) of the customer device 104 itself (sequence S812). Thereafter, the customer device 104 transmits the electronic receipt 116 to the receipt store 118 on the cloud 120 (sequence S814).
The electronic receipt 116 can be transmitted to the receipt store 118 from the customer device 104 with the use of any mechanism. For example, in a case in which the customer device 104 is a wireless telephone, the electronic receipt 116 can be transmitted with the use of a variety of technologies that can be used to transmit information to a wireless telephone or to receive information from a wireless telephone, such as 3G (The Third Generation) technology (sequence S816), wireless LAN technology or Wi-Fi technology (sequence S818), Enhanced Data rates for GSM (registered trademark) Evolution (EDGE) technology (sequence S820), Short Message Service (SMS) technology (sequence S822), or any other mechanism.
The use of the electronic receipt 116 generated through the system as described above and stored in the receipt store 118 enables the customer to easily acquire information on the purchased merchandise, and the customer can check, for example, whether the entire purchased merchandise purchased while traveling is in the bag storing goods.
Patent Literature 1: Published Japanese Translation of PCT International Publication for Patent Application, No. 2011-524051
However, with the related art as described in Patent Literature 1 (the technique described with reference to
The present disclosure has been made in view of such shortcomings and is directed to providing an information processing apparatus, an electronic receipt system, a mobile terminal, a baggage weight checking method, and a baggage weight checking program that make it possible to grasp a total weight of purchased merchandise with the use of an electronic receipt for the purchased merchandise.
In order to solve the above-described problem, an information processing apparatus, an electronic receipt system, a mobile terminal, a baggage weight checking method, and a baggage weight checking program according to the present invention mainly have the following characteristic configurations, respectively.
(1) An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes:
receiving means for receiving, from a store terminal, information on merchandise purchased by a customer;
storing means for storing at least one of a weight and a volume of the merchandise associated with the customer; and
controlling means for causing information including at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise purchased within a predetermined period by the customer to be displayed in a terminal device as output information in response to a request from the terminal device.
(2) The information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure, wherein
the controlling means causes a plurality of regions to be displayed in the terminal device as the output information, and
each region of the plurality of regions includes information on the merchandise purchased by the customer and a total value of at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise included in each region of the plurality of regions.
(3) An electronic receipt system according to the present disclosure, includes:
a mobile terminal in possession of a customer;
a POS (Point of Sales) device installed at a store; and
an electronic receipt center on a cloud, wherein
the POS device generates, as a digitized electronic receipt, receipt information on purchased merchandise purchased by a customer at the store and transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center,
the electronic receipt center stores the received electronic receipt and, upon receiving a transmission request for the electronic receipt from the mobile terminal of the customer, transmits the stored electronic receipt for the customer to the mobile terminal that has made the request,
when generating the electronic receipt, the POS device acquires information indicating a weight of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer and generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise is further added, and
upon receiving the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center, the mobile terminal provides a screen display of the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise included in the electronic receipt.
(4) A mobile terminal according to the present disclosure, constituting an electronic receipt system of a customer;
the electronic receipt system includes:
a POS (Point of Sales) device installed at a store; and
an electronic receipt center on a cloud,
wherein when generating, as a digitized electronic receipt, receipt information on purchased merchandise purchased by a customer at the store, the POS device acquires information indicating a weight of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer, generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the weight is further added, transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center to be stored therein, and thereafter the mobile terminal receives the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center by making an acquisition request for the electronic receipt for the customer to the electronic receipt center and provides a screen display of the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise included in the electronic receipt.
(5) A baggage weight checking method according to the present disclosure, with the use of an electronic receipt system to check a weight of purchased merchandise handled as a baggage, includes:
a mobile terminal in possession of a customer;
a POS (Point of Sales) device installed at a store; and
an electronic receipt center on a cloud, wherein
the POS device generates, as a digitized electronic receipt, receipt information on purchased merchandise purchased by a customer at the store and transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center,
the electronic receipt center stores the received electronic receipt and, upon receiving a transmission request for the electronic receipt from the mobile terminal of the customer, transmits the stored electronic receipt for the customer to the mobile terminal that has made the request,
when generating the electronic receipt, the POS device acquires information indicating a weight of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer and generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise is further added, and
upon receiving the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center, the mobile terminal provides a screen display of the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise included in the electronic receipt.
(6) A baggage weight checking program according to the present disclosure, configured to carry out a baggage weight checking method according to the above-mentioned (3) as a program that can be executed by a computer.
The information processing apparatus, the electronic receipt system, the mobile terminal, the baggage weight checking method, and the baggage weight checking program according to the present disclosure allow a customer using an airplane to easily check the total weight of the merchandise purchased by the customer by operating the mobile terminal in possession of the customer prior to going through the procedures for boarding the airplane and by using the information on the electronic receipt for the purchased merchandise. Therefore, on occurrence of an excess fee incurred due to the weight of the baggage being over the baggage weight limit while going through the airplane boarding procedures can be prevented.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of an information processing apparatus, an electronic receipt system, a mobile terminal, a baggage weight checking method, and a baggage weight checking program according to the present disclosure will be described with reference to the appended drawings. In the following descriptions, an electronic receipt system, a mobile terminal, and a baggage weight checking method according to the present disclosure will be described, and it is needless to say that the baggage weight checking method may be implemented as a baggage weight checking program that can be executed by a computer or that the baggage weight checking program may be recorded on a computer readable recording medium. In addition, basic elements of the electronic receipt system can of course be expressed as an information processing apparatus. Furthermore, it is needless to say that the reference characters indicated in the following drawings are given to the elements as examples for the sake of convenience to facilitate understanding and are not intended to limit the present disclosure to the illustrated embodiments.
Prior to describing embodiments of the present disclosure, an overview of features of the present disclosure will be described first. A primary feature of the present disclosure is to notify a customer about a total weight of merchandise purchased by the customer by displaying the total weight with the use of a technique related to an electronic receipt. To be more specific, a primary feature is to allow the customer using an airplane to easily check the total weight of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer including the weight of the bag itself storing the purchased merchandise by operating a customer device, or a mobile terminal, in possession of the customer in advance prior to boarding the airplane to use the information on the electronic receipt for the purchased merchandise. Then, an advantageous effect that an occurrence of an excess fee incurred due to the weight of the baggage being over the baggage weight limit while going through the airplane boarding procedure can be prevented in advance can be obtained.
Next, an example of embodiments according to the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. As described above regarding the related art, in recent years, an electronic receipt system that stores merchandise purchase information on a server (an electronic receipt center, a receipt store, or the like) on the cloud or the like and manages the merchandise purchase information has been proposed. As described in Patent Literature 1 described above, the use of such an electronic receipt system enables the customer to grasp information on all of the purchased merchandise and, for example, enables a person visiting Japan to easily grasp information on all the purchased merchandise. In addition, the customer can easily check visually whether all the purchased items can be stored in a hand bag or a bag upon bringing back the purchased merchandise to a hotel where the customer is staying.
However, as described above, there is a problem to be solved in that whether the weight of the purchased merchandise meets the baggage weight limit guideline for an airplane cannot be grasped easily without a scale. The present disclosure has been made to solve such a problem and is directed to providing a means that makes it possible to easily grasp the total weight of the entire purchased merchandise with the use of an electronic receipt technology.
Next, a system configuration example of an electronic receipt system according to the present disclosure will be described with reference to a system configuration diagram illustrated in
An electronic receipt system 10 illustrated in
Herein, the mobile terminal 1 is a customer device carried by the customer and is any terminal device, such as a mobile phone, a smartphone, or a portable calculator, as described above. The mobile terminal 1 stores information on electronic money, a credit card number, or the like to be used to pay the charge for purchased merchandise, information on the weight of a bag owned by the customer to store purchased items and so on, address information within the electronic receipt center 3 to which an electronic receipt for the customer is transmitted, and other profile information. In addition, the mobile terminal 1 includes a transmission/reception unit that transmits and receives information to and from the POS device 2 installed in the store 20 and to and from the electronic receipt center 3 on the cloud 30.
Through the communication with the POS device 2 in the store 20, the mobile terminal 1 can transmit, to the POS device 2, the information on the electronic money, the credit card number, or the like stored in the mobile terminal 1, the address information within the electronic receipt center 3 to which the electronic receipt for the customer is transmitted, and other profile information to carry out payment processing. In addition, through the communication with the electronic receipt center 3, the mobile terminal 1 can access the address to which the electronic receipt for the customer is transmitted to acquire the information on the electronic receipt. Although the details will be described later, the electronic receipt includes the weight of each piece of purchased merchandise and, in some cases, information indicating the volume (size).
The mobile terminal 1 extracts the weight information (the total weight including the weight of the storing bag itself) on the purchased merchandise included in the electronic receipt acquired from the electronic receipt center 3, generates a baggage weight display screen that makes it possible to easily check whether the total weight is over the weight limit for carry-on baggage or the weight limit for cargo-compartment check-in baggage defined by the airplane baggage allowance guideline illustrated in
In addition, in some cases, the mobile terminal 1 is provided with a function of extracting information on the volume (size) of purchased merchandise included in an electronic receipt and displaying a warning indicating that the purchased merchandise cannot be stored in the bag if it is determined that it is difficult to store the purchased merchandise in the bag on the basis of a comparison result with the volume of the bag for storage (the maximum volume that can be stored).
The POS device 2 is a device in which the POS component 110 and the device reader 106 described in Patent Literature 1 described above are integrated. However, this embodiment is not limiting, and similarly to Patent Literature 1 described above, the POS component 110 and the device reader 106 may be separated. The POS device 2 is installed in the store 20, carries out payment processing of purchased merchandise purchased by the customer, generates an electronic receipt for the purchased merchandise, and transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center 3 on the cloud 30.
In addition, the POS device 2 acquires, from the mobile terminal 1 of the customer visiting the store 20, information on electronic money, a credit card number, or the like to be used to pay the charge for purchased merchandise, information on the weight of the bag for storing items (including the purchased merchandise and so on) owned by the customer, address information within the electronic receipt center 3 to which an electronic receipt for the customer is transmitted, and other profile information and uses such information in the payment processing and processing of generating an electronic receipt. The electronic receipt may be generated in the POS device 2 through a procedure substantially similar to that described in Patent Literature 1 described above, and thus duplicate descriptions thereof will be omitted herein. In addition, in the present embodiment, information included in an electronic receipt will be described later.
The electronic receipt center 3 has a function of storing an electronic receipt transmitted from the POS device 2 and providing various services related to the electronic receipt for the customer in response to an access from the mobile terminal 1 of the customer. For example, the electronic receipt center 3 has a function of transmitting an electronic receipt for purchased merchandise purchased by the customer to the mobile terminal 1 of the customer in a case in which a transmission request for the electronic receipt is received from the mobile terminal 1 of the customer. The method of managing an electronic receipt in the electronic receipt center 3 is substantially the same as the method of managing an electronic receipt in the receipt store described in Patent Literature 1 described above, and thus duplicate descriptions thereof will be omitted herein.
Next, an internal configuration of the mobile terminal 1 carried by the customer will be described with reference to a block configuration diagram illustrated in
The mobile terminal 1 illustrated in
The transmission/reception unit 11 has a function of carrying out wireless communication or wired communication with the POS device 2 and with the electronic receipt center 3. With regard to the mode of wireless communication, various wireless communication schemes, such as wireless LAN, Wi-Fi, and NFC, are supported. The display unit 12 has a function of providing a screen display of various pieces of service information to the customer and can also provide, for example, a screen display of a baggage weight display screen that can display the weight of the purchased merchandise as the total weight including the weight of the bag itself for storing the purchased merchandise. Details will be described later. In addition, the display unit 12 is a touch pad-type display screen and allows the customer to touch the screen with a finger to perform a tapping (or clicking) operation, a drag and drop operation, or the like.
The input unit 13 can accept an instruction for a specific operation, a selection for a specific operation, or a text input through various screen operations via the touch pad described above. In addition, the input unit 13 can accept an input of a specific instruction through a button operation. In addition, the use of an embedded camera function makes it possible to accept an input of an image or a moving image. Furthermore, the input unit 13 can take in, as input information, a command received from the outside (e.g., the POS device 2, the electronic receipt center 3, and so on) via the transmission/reception unit 11.
The electronic money information 14 is information stored in advance as information for making a payment for purchased merchandise and may store a credit card number or the like. The electronic money information 14 is also the information to be transmitted to the POS device 2 as the profile information including the payment information at the time of purchasing merchandise. The electronic receipt addressee information 15 is information indicating the addressee within the electronic receipt center 3 to which an electronic receipt for the customer is transmitted and is the information transmitted to the POS device 2 as the profile information at the time of purchasing merchandise. The electronic receipt addressee information 15 is also used to access the electronic receipt center 3 for acquiring an electronic receipt for the customer.
The memory 16 stores information on an electronic receipt received from the electronic receipt center 3, stores the baggage weight display screen to be displayed in the display unit 12, stores information on the weight and the volume of each of a carry-on bag 1 and a cargo-compartment check-in bag 2 for using an airplane, or in some cases, stores information on the weight limit or the like for carry-on baggage and cargo-compartment check-in baggage defined by an airplane baggage allowance guideline retrieved from a server or the like on the cloud 30. In addition, the memory 16 is used to store various programs, such as a baggage weight checking program, or to temporarily save various pieces of information to work on.
The control unit 17 has a function of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal 1 as a whole and controls executions of various programs, such as the baggage weight checking program, stored in the memory 16. In addition, the control unit 17 receives a command transmitted via the transmission/reception unit 11 and controls an operation corresponding to the instruction content of the command. The power source unit 18 supplies power to each portion of the mobile terminal 1, and a rechargeable battery, such as a lithium-ion rechargeable battery, is used, for example.
Next, information incorporated into an electronic receipt used in the present embodiment will be described with reference to
The store of purchase information 701 includes a company name such as AAA Corporation, a store name such as C Company Store, and information on a contact telephone number and a FAX number. The purchased merchandise information 702 includes merchandise name such as merchandise 1, merchandise 2, . . . , the number of units of each type of merchandise purchased×the unit purchase price of each type of merchandise, and the total monetary amount for each type of merchandise. The monetary amount of purchase information 703 includes information on the total monetary amount, the monetary amount in each payment method such as the monetary payment amount in a credit card, cash, or the like, the total number of pieces of purchased merchandise, the consumption tax, and a discount for bringing in an own shopping bag, or the like. The date and time of purchase information 704 includes information on the date of purchase, the day of the week on which the purchase is made, the time of purchase, a cash register number, and the name of a handling staff member or the like.
A PLU (price loop-up) table for registering merchandise information, such as the name of merchandise and the unit price, is normally placed in a merchandise database server to be made available in a self POS in which the customer takes care of the payment of the charge for the purchased merchandise on his/her own, and the merchandise information can be transmitted not only to the POS device 2 but also to a self POS. In the present embodiment, registered in the PLU table are the merchandise code for each type of merchandise, the unit price of the merchandise, and so on as well as the weight data of the merchandise and, in some cases, the dimensions (size) of the merchandise and so on.
The data stored as an electronic receipt into a memory of the PLU table 200 includes at least data on each item of purchased merchandise, as illustrated in
As illustrated in
The example illustrated in
Herein, the unit price of purchased merchandise 405 of the merchandise 1 (e.g., cosmetics) is 1,980 yen, and the unit weight of purchased merchandise 406 is 175 g. The unit price of purchased merchandise 405 of the merchandise 2 (e.g., medicine) is 479 yen, and the unit weight of purchased merchandise 406 is 130 g. The unit price of purchased merchandise 405 of the merchandise 3 (e.g., fever-relieving sheet) is 455 yen, and the unit weight of purchased merchandise 406 is 230 g. The unit price of purchased merchandise 405 of the merchandise 4 (e.g., drinking water) is 138 yen, and the unit weight of purchased merchandise 406 is 640 g. Therefore, the total (subtotal) purchase price of the seventeen pieces of merchandise purchased at 9:51 on Jan. 26, 2016 at the C Company Store is 15,283 yen, and the total (subtotal) weight is 3,045 g. In other words, the purchase price of the purchased merchandise consisting of the seventeen pieces of merchandise as described above, or in other words, the purchase price of the purchased merchandise purchased at 9:51 on Jan. 26, 2016 at the C Company Store is 15,283 yen, and the weight thereof is 3,045 g.
An electronic receipt is generated on the basis of the information on the purchased merchandise as illustrated in
Next, an example of an operation of the electronic receipt system 10 illustrated in
Specifically, the customer owns two bags as bags for storing purchased merchandise. Described is a case in which one bag 1 is for storing goods to be carried into an airplane cabin, and the other bag 2 is for storing goods to be checked into a cargo compartment of the airplane. Herein, as indicated in the guideline illustrated in
First, a screen display example displayed on the display unit 12 of the mobile terminal 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to
The baggage weight display screen 300 illustrated in
Herein, a purchased merchandise icon is being prepared as information for indicating purchased merchandise grouped by the store of purchase and by the date of purchase (a collection of individual pieces of purchased merchandise) when a piece of purchased merchandise is newly stored in the bag after the date set in advance as the initial value in the totaling start time 302. Then, for each of the bags into which the purchased merchandise is stored, the purchased merchandise icon is additionally displayed within a display frame of each of the carry-on baggage 304, the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305, and the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 2 306 displayed in correspondence thereto. Furthermore, at the upper center portion of the display frame of each of the carry-on baggage 304, the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305, and the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 2 306, the total weight of each piece of baggage including the weight of the corresponding storing bag held at the current time indicated in the current time 301 is displayed. Although not illustrated in
In the display example illustrated in
Meanwhile, illustrated is a state in which merchandise purchased at a D Company Store on January 21, merchandise purchased at an F Company Store on January 22, merchandise purchased at an E Company Store on January 23, merchandise purchased at a G Company Store on January 24, and merchandise purchased at a C Company Store on January 26 are stored in the bag 2 to be checked into the cargo compartment, as indicated by the purchased merchandise icons in the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305 illustrated in
As a result, displayed at the upper center portion of the display frame of each of the carry-on baggage 304 and the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305 is that the total weights of the baggage including the weight of the bags are 8.3 kg and 12.6 kg at the current time 301 of 10:05 on Jan. 26, 2016, and displayed in the total weight 303 is that the total weight obtained by adding the two is 20.9 kg.
In each of the carry-on baggage 304, the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305, and the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 2 306, the total weight (original weight) of the weight of the bag itself owned by the customer and the weight of goods stored from the beginning is set in advance as an initial value and displayed in the screen at a lower right corner of each display frame. In the display example illustrated in
In addition, the weight limit for each defined by the airplane baggage allowance guideline is displayed as an initial value in the upper right of the display frame of each of the carry-on baggage 304, the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305, and the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 2 306. In the display example illustrated in
In the following descriptions, the assumption is that the bag for storing the merchandise newly purchased after 21:42 on Jan. 20, 2016 set in the totaling start time 302 is the bag 1 to be carried into the airplane cabin, as set as an initial value.
In the initial screen illustrated in
Then, the assumption is that, when the customer has confirmed that the bag 1 is over the weight limit of 10 kg for carry-ons through the baggage weight display screen 300 of the mobile terminal 1 or as necessary, the customer discards any piece of merchandise stored in the bag 1 to be carried into the cabin as grouped by the store of purchase and by the date of purchase or repacks the merchandise into the bag 2 to be checked into the cargo compartment. With regard to an operation for the customer to check whether the bag 1 is within the weight limit of 10 kg for carry-ons as a result of discarding or repacking the merchandise, the customer can easily check through a drag and drop operation of the purchased merchandise icon displayed in the display frame of the carry-on baggage 304 of the baggage weight display screen 300 of the mobile terminal 1 of the customer into the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305.
In addition, as necessary, it is of course possible to repack merchandise in the opposite direction. In such a case as well, a drag and drop operation of a purchased merchandise icon in the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305 of the baggage weight display screen 300 into the display frame of the carry-on baggage 304 makes it possible to simulate a case in which the merchandise is repacked in the opposite direction from the bag 2 to be checked into the cargo compartment to the bag 1 to be carried into the cabin. Then, regardless of the direction of repacking, how the total weight of each has changed can be checked easily.
Next, a procedure for operating the baggage weight display screen 300 of the mobile terminal 1 of the customer will be described with reference to
The screen display example of the baggage weight display screen 300 illustrated in
As illustrated in
As illustrated in
As a result, the display content of the baggage weight display screen 300 illustrated in
Accordingly, the customer repacks the merchandise purchased at the C Company Store on January 26 from the bag 1 to be carried into the cabin to the bag 2 to be checked into the cargo compartment in accordance with the changed display content of the baggage weight display screen 300 illustrated in
In other words, as described in detail thus far, in the present embodiment, the weight of the goods stored into the bag 1 to be carried into the cabin and the bag 2 to be checked into the cargo compartment can be totaled after the date and the time set in the totaling start time 302 of the baggage weight display screen 300. In addition, only by moving a purchased merchandise icon displayed as grouped by the store of purchase and by the date of purchase between the display frame of the carry-on baggage 304 of the baggage weight display screen 300 and the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage 1 305, the customer can easily grasp the total weight of the merchandise purchased on the date of purchase and at the store of purchase corresponding to the purchased merchandise icon.
As described above, if the total weight of the individual pieces of merchandise purchased as grouped by store of purchase and by the date of purchase, namely, if the weight of the purchased merchandise is displayed on the baggage weight display screen 300 associated with a purchased merchandise icon, the customer can simply determine which piece of merchandise is to be moved or discarded to resolve the state in which a bag is over the weight limit only by viewing the baggage weight display screen 300.
In the screen operation example of the baggage weight display screen 300 illustrated in
In other words, as illustrated in
In addition, the individual merchandise icons illustrated in
Next, an operation example of a case in which a specific piece of merchandise is selected from the individual pieces of merchandise displayed all at once in the form of the individual merchandise icons in
As illustrated in
In addition, as illustrated in
In the screen operation illustrated in
Next, an operation method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the flowchart illustrated in
As described in detail thus far, the embodiment according to the present disclosure allows a customer using an airplane to easily check the total weight of the merchandise purchased by the customer by operating the mobile terminal 1 of the customer that is owned by the customer to use the electronic receipt system in advance prior to going through the procedures for boarding the airplane. Therefore, on occurrence of an excess fee incurred due to the weight of the baggage being over the baggage weight limit while going through the airplane boarding procedures can be prevented.
In the embodiment described above, whether the weight of the purchased merchandise is over the weight limit defined by the airplane baggage allowance guideline is checked in advance with the use of the electronic receipt system. However, in the present disclosure, not only the weight of the purchased merchandise but also information on the dimensions of the purchased merchandise can be incorporated. In other words, a mechanism that warns the customer that the purchased merchandise cannot be stored in the bag 1 or the bag 2 in a case in which such a situation is suspected by referring to the information on the dimensions (size) of the purchased merchandise can be provided.
Furthermore, the weight or the dimensions (size) of the purchased merchandise can be checked not only after the merchandise is purchased but also before the merchandise is purchased. For example, before purchasing merchandise, the customer operates the mobile terminal 1 to read a merchandise code affixed to the merchandise and acquires the weight or the dimensions of the merchandise in advance with the use of the electronic receipt system 10. Thereafter, the customer may enter the number of pieces of merchandise to be purchased and check the weight or the dimensions (size) on the basis of the result of simulating the total of the weights or the dimensions (sizes) of the merchandise to be purchased in the intended number of pieces prior to making the purchase.
A specific example of examining whether the purchased merchandise meets the dimensions (size) that can be stored in a bag will now be described. At a store that sells merchandise, a merchandise database server storing a database of merchandise information as illustrated in
TABLE 1
Unit Price
Weight
Volume
Merchandise Code
Merchandise Name
(yen)
(g)
(ml)
4901085167014
Merchandise A
135
400
300
4580360130808
Merchandise B
88
2050
2010
Then, when the process of issuing an electronic receipt for the purchased merchandise is carried out in the POS device 102 installed in the store 20, not only the unit price of the purchased merchandise but also the data on the weight and the volume of the purchased merchandise is acquired by accessing the aforementioned merchandise database server, and the electronic receipt for the purchased merchandise can be generated.
Accordingly, the electronic receipt center 3, serving as a center device, in the electronic receipt system 10 can acquire and store, in the form of an electronic receipt, information on the monetary amount paid for the purchased merchandise as well as information on the weight and the volume of the purchased merchandise transmitted from the POS device 2 installed in the store 20.
In addition, the customer registers in advance the volume of the bag used to store purchased merchandise into the mobile terminal 1 used by the customer as illustrated in Table 2 below.
TABLE 2
Type of Bag
Volume (l)
Bag 1
60
Bag 2
95
When the customer is to change the bag into which the purchased merchandise is stored, the customer acquires the electronic receipt information of the customer from the electronic receipt center 3, displays the baggage weight display screen 300 on the mobile terminal 1 of the customer as illustrated in
In other words, the customer who is to repack the merchandise accesses the electronic receipt center 3 on the cloud 30 with the use of the address data indicating the addressee of the electronic receipt for the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer by operating the mobile terminal 1 of the customer and receives the data on the electronic receipt for the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer.
The customer extracts information on the volume of the purchased merchandise on which a drag and drop operation is to be performed on the baggage weight display screen 300 as illustrated in
When, in the baggage weight display screen 300 illustrated in
In addition, even in a case in which whether the weight of the merchandise to be purchased at a later time meets the weight that can be loaded into the airplane is simulated or whether the merchandise to be purchased at a later time can be stored in the bag 1 or the bag 2 is simulated, as described above, displaying both the information on the weight at the current moment and the information on the volume (size) on a screen facilitates the simulation. In other words, the customer can easily carry out a simulation only by viewing the screen of the mobile terminal 1 by acquiring, in advance prior to making a purchase, the weight and the volume (size) of the merchandise to be purchased at a later time with the use of the electronic receipt system 10.
Thus far, the configurations of preferred embodiments of the present disclosure have been described. However, it is to be noted that these embodiments are merely illustrative examples of the present disclosure and are not intended to limit the present disclosure. It should be easily appreciated by a person skilled in the art that various modifications and changes can be made in accordance with the specific intended use without departing from the spirit of the present disclosure.
In the foregoing embodiments, the present disclosure has been described as a hardware configuration, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. In the present disclosure, any desired process can also be implemented by causing a CPU (Central Processing Unit) to execute a computer program. In addition, the aforementioned program can be stored with the use of a variety of types of non-transitory computer readable medium and supplied to the computer. The non-transitory computer readable medium includes a variety of types of tangible storage medium. Examples of the non-transitory computer readable medium include a magnetic recording medium (e.g., a flexible disk, a magnetic tape, a hard disk drive), a magneto-optical recording medium (e.g., a magneto-optical disk), a CD-ROM (Read Only Memory), a CD-R, a CD-R/W, and a semiconductor memory (e.g., a mask ROM, a PROM (Programmable ROM), an EPROM (Erasable PROM), a flash ROM, a RAM (Random Access Memory)). In addition, the program may be supplied to the computer in the form of a variety of types of transitory computer readable medium. Examples of the transitory computer readable medium include an electric signal, an optical signal, and an electromagnetic wave. The transitory computer readable medium can provide the program to the computer via a wired communication line, such as an electric wire or an optical fiber, or via a wireless communication line.
A part or all of the embodiments described above can also be expressed as in the following supplementary notes but are not limited to the following.
(Supplementary Note 1)
An information processing apparatus includes:
receiving means for receiving, from a store terminal, information on merchandise purchased by a customer;
storing means for storing at least one of a weight and a volume of the merchandise associated with the customer; and
controlling means for causing information including at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise purchased within a predetermined period by the customer to be displayed in a terminal device as output information in response to a request from the terminal device.
(Supplementary Note 2)
The information processing apparatus according to Supplementary Note 1, wherein
the controlling means causes a plurality of regions to be displayed in the terminal device as the output information, and
each region of the plurality of regions includes information on the merchandise purchased by the customer and a total value of at least one of the weight and the volume of the merchandise included in each region of the plurality of regions.
(Supplementary Note 3)
(3) An electronic receipt system according to the present disclosure includes:
a mobile terminal in possession of a customer;
a POS (Point of Sales) device installed at a store; and
an electronic receipt center, wherein
the POS device generates, as a digitized electronic receipt, receipt information on purchased merchandise purchased by a customer at the store and transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center,
the electronic receipt center stores the received electronic receipt and, upon receiving a transmission request for the electronic receipt from the mobile terminal of the customer, transmits the stored electronic receipt for the customer to the mobile terminal that has made the request,
when generating the electronic receipt, the POS device acquires information indicating a weight of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer and generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise is further added, and
upon receiving the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center, the mobile terminal provides a screen display of the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise included in the electronic receipt.
(Supplementary Note 4)
The electronic receipt system according to Supplementary Note 3, wherein
the POS device, when generating the electronic receipt, generates the electronic receipt in a format in which a unit price and a weight of each individual piece of the purchased merchandise and the number of the individual pieces of the purchased merchandise are grouped together by a store of purchase and by a date of purchase and in which a subtotal purchase price and a subtotal weight totaled by the store of purchase and by the date of purchase are grouped together, and transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center, and
the mobile terminal
stores in advance information on a weight of each of a carry-on bag and a cargo-compartment check-in bag held when the customer boards an airplane and information on a weight limit of each of the carry-on bag and the cargo-compartment check-in bag defined by an airplane baggage allowance guideline,
upon receiving the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center, with regard to the purchased merchandise purchased after a totaling start time set in advance by the customer,
provides a screen display in a state in which the purchased merchandise to be stored in the carry-on bag is disposed within a display frame of the carry-on baggage in the form of purchased merchandise icons grouped by the store of purchase and by the date of purchase, and provides a screen display of a weight limit of the carry-on baggage and a carry-on baggage total weight obtained by totaling a weight of the purchased merchandise to be stored in the carry-on bag and a weight of the carry-on bag in a location associated with the display frame, and
provides a screen display in a state in which the purchased merchandise to be stored in the cargo-compartment check-in bag is disposed within a display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in bag in the form of purchased merchandise icons grouped by the store of purchase and by the date of purchase, and provides a screen display of a weight limit of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage and a cargo-compartment check-in baggage total weight obtained by totaling a weight of the purchased merchandise to be stored in the cargo-compartment check-in baggage and a weight of the cargo-compartment check-in bag in a location associated with the display frame.
(Supplementary Note 5)
The electronic receipt system according to Supplementary Note 3 or 4, wherein the mobile terminal accepts a tapping or clicking operation of a purchased merchandise icon selected from one or more of the purchased merchandise icons displayed in the display frame of the carry-on baggage or in the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage and thus displays, in the number of the individual pieces of merchandise, individual merchandise icons indicating one or more types of individual pieces of merchandise constituting the purchased merchandise purchased at the store of purchase and on the date of purchase that correspond to the selected purchased merchandise icon.
(Supplementary Note 6)
The electronic receipt system according to any one of Supplementary Notes 3 to 5, wherein the mobile terminal
accepts a drag and drop operation, into the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage, a purchased merchandise icon or an individual merchandise icon selected from one or more of the purchased merchandise icons or from one or more of the individual merchandise icons displayed in the display frame of the carry-on baggage and thus recalculates and displays the carry-on baggage total weight and the cargo-compartment check-in baggage total weight obtained in a case in which the purchased merchandise or the individual piece of merchandise purchased at the store of purchase and on the date of purchase that correspond to the selected purchased merchandise icon or the selected individual merchandise icon is repacked from the carry-on bag to the cargo-compartment check-in bag, and
accepts a drag and drop operation, into the display frame of the carry-on baggage, a purchased merchandise icon or an individual merchandise icon selected from one or more of the purchased merchandise icons or from one or more of the individual merchandise icons displayed in the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage and thus recalculates and displays the carry-on baggage total weight and the cargo-compartment check-in baggage total weight obtained in a case in which the purchased merchandise or the individual piece of merchandise purchased at the store of purchase and on the date of purchase that correspond to the selected purchased merchandise icon or the selected individual merchandise icon is repacked from the cargo-compartment check-in bag to the carry-on bag.
(Supplementary Note 7)
The electronic receipt system according to any one of Supplementary Notes 3 to 6, wherein the mobile terminal accepts a drag and drop operation, onto an exclude button, of a purchased merchandise icon or an individual merchandise icon selected from one or more of the purchased merchandise icons or from one or more of the individual merchandise icons displayed in the display frame of the carry-on baggage or in the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage and thus recalculates and displays the carry-on baggage total weight and the cargo-compartment check-in baggage total weight obtained in a case in which the purchased merchandise or the individual piece of merchandise purchased at the store of purchase and on the date of purchase that correspond to the selected purchased merchandise icon or the selected individual merchandise icon is discarded.
(Supplementary Note 8)
The electronic receipt system according to any one of Supplementary Notes 3 to 7, wherein
the POS device, when generating the electronic receipt, acquires information indicating a volume of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer, generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the volume is further added, and transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center, and
the mobile terminal
further stores information on a volume of each of the carry-on bag and the cargo-compartment check-in bag, and
upon receiving the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center, with regard to the purchased merchandise purchased after the totaling start time set in advance by the customer,
compares the volume of the purchased merchandise to be stored in the carry-on bag or in the cargo-compartment check-in bag with the volume of the carry-on bag or the cargo-compartment check-in bag and, in a case in which the volume of the storing carry-on bag or the storing cargo-compartment check-in bag is smaller, displays a warning screen indicating that the purchased merchandise cannot be stored, or
when a drag and drop operation is performed, into the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage or into the display frame of the carry-on baggage, on a purchased merchandise icon or an individual merchandise icon selected from one or more of the purchased merchandise icons or from one or more of the individual merchandise icons displayed in the display frame of the carry-on baggage or in the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage, compares the volume of the purchased merchandise to be stored into the cargo-compartment check-in bag or the carry-on bag
obtained upon the purchased merchandise or the individual piece of merchandise purchased at the store of purchase and on the date of purchase that correspond to the selected purchased merchandise icon or the selected individual merchandise icon being repacked into the cargo-compartment check-in cargo-compartment check-in bag or the cargo-compartment check-in bag with the volume of the cargo-compartment check-in bag or the carry-on bag and, in a case in which the volume of the storing cargo-compartment check-in bag or the storing carry-on bag is smaller, displays a warning screen indicating that the purchased merchandise or the individual piece of merchandise cannot be repacked.
(Supplementary Note 9)
The electronic receipt system according to any one of Supplementary Notes 3 to 8, wherein the mobile terminal provides a screen display of information on the weight of the purchased merchandise or the individual piece of merchandise purchased at the store of purchase and on the date of purchase that correspond to each of one or more of the purchased merchandise icons or one or more of the individual merchandise icons displayed in the display frame of the carry-on baggage or in the display frame of the cargo-compartment check-in baggage, information on the volume of the purchased merchandise or the individual piece of merchandise, or information on both the weight and the volume of the purchased merchandise or the individual piece of merchandise associated with the purchased merchandise icon or with the individual merchandise icon.
(Supplementary Note 10)
An information terminal of a customer, receives the electronic receipt information from an electronic receipt system,
the electronic receipt system includes:
a POS (Point of Sales) device installed at a store; and
an electronic receipt center,
wherein when generating, as a digitized electronic receipt, receipt information on purchased merchandise purchased by a customer at the store, the POS device acquires information indicating a weight of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer, generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the weight is further added, transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center to be stored therein, and thereafter the information terminal receives the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center by making an acquisition request for the electronic receipt for the customer to the electronic receipt center and provides a screen display of the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise included in the electronic receipt.
(Supplementary Note 11)
A baggage weight checking method with the use of an electronic receipt system to check a weight of purchased merchandise handled as a baggage includes:
a mobile terminal in possession of a customer;
a POS (Point of Sales) device installed at a store; and
an electronic receipt center on a cloud, wherein
the POS device generates, as a digitized electronic receipt, receipt information on purchased merchandise purchased by a customer at the store and transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center,
the electronic receipt center stores the received electronic receipt and, upon receiving a transmission request for the electronic receipt from the mobile terminal of the customer, transmits the stored electronic receipt for the customer to the mobile terminal that has made the request,
when generating the electronic receipt, the POS device acquires information indicating a weight of the purchased merchandise purchased by the customer and generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise is further added, and
upon receiving the electronic receipt for the customer from the electronic receipt center, the mobile terminal provides a screen display of the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise included in the electronic receipt.
(Supplementary Note 12)
A baggage weight checking program is configured to carry out a baggage weight checking method according to Supplementary Note 11 as a program that can be executed by a computer.
This application claims priority to Japanese Patent Application No. 2016-086053, filed on Apr. 22, 2016, and the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein.
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